SATURDAY'S SOUNDNESS: *GOD'S* WISDOM & POWER...

JOB 38... 
1/ Then the LORD addressed Job out of the storm and said:
2/ Who is this that obscures divine plans with words of ignorance? 
3/ Gird up your loins now, like a man; I will question you, and you tell me the answers! 

4/ Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.  
5/ Who determined its size; do you know? Who stretched out the measuring line for it? 
6/ Into what were its pedestals sunk, and who laid the cornerstone, 
7/ While the morning stars sang in chorus and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 
8/ And who shut within doors the sea, when it burst forth from the womb; 
9/ When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling bands? 
10/ When I set limits for it and fastened the bar of its door, 
11/ And said: Thus far shall you come but no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stilled!

 12/ Have you ever in your lifetime commanded the morning and shown the dawn its place 
13/ For taking hold of the ends of the earth, till the wicked are shaken from its surface? 
14/ The earth is changed as is clay by the seal, and dyed as though it were a garment; 
15/ But from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm of pride is shattered. 

16/ Have you entered into the sources of the sea, or walked about in the depths of the abyss? 
17/ Have the gates of death been shown to you, or have you seen the gates of darkness? 
18/ Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Tell me, if you know all: 
19/ Which is the way to the dwelling place of light, and where is the abode of darkness, 
20/ That you may take them to their boundaries and set them on their homeward paths? 
21/ You know, because you were born before them, and the number of your years is great! 

22/ Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, and seen the treasury of the hail 
23/ Which I have reserved for times of stress, for the days of war and of battle? 
24/ Which way to the parting of the winds, whence the east wind spreads over the earth? 
25/ Who has laid out a channel for the downpour and for the thunderstorm a path 
26/ To bring rain to no man's land, the unpeopled wilderness; 
27/ To enrich the waste and desolate ground till the desert blooms with verdure? 
28/ Has the rain a father; or who has begotten the drops of dew? 
29/ Out of whose womb comes the ice, and who gives the hoarfrost its birth in the skies, 
30/ When the waters lie covered as though with stone that holds captive the surface of the deep? 

31/ Have you fitted a curb to the Pleiades, or loosened the bonds of Orion? 
32/ Can you bring forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or guide the Bear with its train? 

33/ Do you know the ordinances of the heavens; can you put into effect their plan on the earth? 
34/ Can you raise your voice among the clouds, or veil yourself in the waters of the storm? 
35/ Can you send forth the lightnings on their way, or will they say to you, "Here we are"? 
37/ Who counts the clouds in his wisdom? Or who tilts the water jars of heaven 
38/ So that the dust of earth is fused into a mass and its clods made solid? 
39/ Do you hunt the prey for the lioness or appease the hunger of her cubs, 
40/ While they crouch in their dens, or lie in wait in the thicket? 
36/ Who puts wisdom in the heart, and gives the cock its understanding? 
41/ Who provides nourishment for the ravens when their young ones cry out to God, and they rove abroad without food?